Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a repeated sentiment background. Oooohhhhh, perfect time to play with new items from the upcoming holiday mini! How about a toast – How about this? Lovely, right? I think I will get lots of use of this set during the… [Read More]

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – Lovely colors! Perfect chance to play with the wonderful Scallop Note Cards & Envelopes – What do you think? Pretty sweet? I used the 6×6 In Color Designer Series Paper for the checked background. The beautiful band… [Read More]

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday. You know what that means, another two week challenge to inspire you! I love that we have an inspiration photo to go with our layout this time! I sort of went with the colors creating this – This gorgeous Designer Series Paper is Mosaic Mood. It’s a nice heavy weight… [Read More]

Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features the 3 D’s : Dies, DSP, and Dazzle! What a great theme! I combined two gorgeous products here – The candle and sentiment dies are from the Wish for It All bundle. See a Silhouette is the Designer Series Paper… [Read More]

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – What a wonderful sketch to play with a new stamp set and coordinating dies! This will be available September 4 – This combines the Seasonal Wreaths stamp set and the All Around Wreath Dies. There is actually a… [Read More]

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Tuesday! Here is our latest two-week challenge to inspire you – This is throw back to TSOT Challenge 17 when the blog started! I love these retro challenges! Here is my sweet thoughts using it – A combination of the Paper Pumpkin kit from May 2019, So Shelli, and the… [Read More]

Happy Sunday! Time for a blog hop! I am so happy to be a special Guest Designer this month! This is our inspirational picture and colors to create with – The (new, upcoming) Gather Together bundle was a perfect pair for these colors – Right? This is a wonderful fall set! I stamped the leaves… [Read More]

Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features our favorite flower set. I’m not sure which is my favorite stamp set, there are just too many to enjoy! I haven’t played with this Bloom & Grow bundle yet – But, it sure is pretty! The flowers were stamped… [Read More]

Oh, todays post sort of takes me back! I used to have Freshly Made Fridays! In my early days of card making and card challenges, Freshly Made Sketches was always a go-to for me. This week, their challenge is this, a retro challenge from back in the day – I looked to see if I… [Read More]

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – What great colors! They look perfect on this card – This just turned out perfectly! I started with a Sahara Sand panel stamped with the Birch Wood stamp in Sahara Sand. The Perennial Flowers are stamped on Very… [Read More]

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our newest 2 week challenge to get your creativity going – Optional Theme : 3 Colors, 2 Shapes, 1 Designer Series Paper I’ve been itching to play with a new bundle that I just got. This Harvest Hellos, will be available September 4th. It is a coordinating stamp… [Read More]

Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features animals, birds or insects. I took this opportunity to play with the Dino Days bundle! It’s soo cute! Cute, right?? I think is’s a great, silly card for any friend! I die cut the bird and dinosaur from the Dinoroar… [Read More]

Happy Friday! Welcome to our blog hop! Our theme this month is Back to School bash! Awesome, as most schools start this month! We will have lots of ideas for those sweet handmade items you will want to create! Of course, I was literal with the theme, creating a card of encouragement – I used… [Read More]

Quick post today! It’s the last day of the month. Although I have some cards in the works for other things, I have something better to share today than a card! You might recall, this is my birthday month. Well, for my birthday, I received a very special, awesome, wonderful unit to store both my… [Read More]

Happy Tuesday Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest two week challenge to inspire you – Optional Theme : Embossing I have the perfect idea! The July Paper Pumpkin, On My Mind – I used one of the cards in the kits for the front embossed panel because it’s just pretty cute! I added a… [Read More]

I have a triple sweet share for today. Actually, one card for three shared special occasions! First, it’s my birthday!! Second, I have a birthday twin, Happy Birthday Gladys! Third. Another friend, MarthaJoe is celebrating 30 years of marriage, also today! To inspire a card to encompass all this, I looked to the Paper Players for my… [Read More]

Hello my friends! Still making one card a day for the month of July!! I needed to create a wedding card. I needed some inspiration. I really liked this sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches this time around! Wonderful inspiration for this – I stamped the two cakes in Early Espresso on Very Vanilla. I… [Read More]